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Post by Honoured Guest on Jul 12, 2017 16:37:07 GMT
Yes, she'd never work at Hampstead. Far too few elderly Jewish business owners and dissatisfied office workers in all her shows.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jul 12, 2017 13:31:08 GMT
Perhaps just not to my taste.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jul 12, 2017 12:56:45 GMT
The Bridge and The Yard Theatres operating year round, Elliott & Harper popping up at Wyndham's and elsewhere to be announced, Wise Children resident at The Old Vic, and HighTide Festival in Walthamstow and Paines Plough Roundabout shows at the Orange Tree.
London theatre is changing for the better.
The Royal Court is exploding in international and local focus, and in venues from the Site to the Gielgud to Tottenham and Pimlico.
The Bush now has a Theatre and a Studio, and the Tricycle will soon open in expansion after a show at the Dorfman.
Only Hampstead and Shakespeare's Globe (post-Emma Rice) are teetering on the brink.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jul 11, 2017 9:08:38 GMT
Dickens plots are always complicated and confusing so it makes sense not to attempt to make it crystal clear, so the audience can soak in the drama without worrying about a detailed plot arc. I'm surprised that anyone is still alive who can't accept blind casting, but there we are. The Imogen adaptation at Shakespeare's Globe was thrilling so this follow-up sounds enticing.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jul 10, 2017 17:44:48 GMT
I wonder whether people may decide to go to just one, and whether they'll see one they've enjoyed before or one that's completely new to them?
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jul 10, 2017 17:37:49 GMT
Is Gregory Doran likely to stay long beyond his Complete Shakespeare Cycle?
That would seem a natural departure point.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jul 10, 2017 17:09:55 GMT
They would HATE 42nd Street. It epitomises what non-believers HATE about musical theatre.
The School of Rock suggestion sounds possible.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jul 10, 2017 16:29:55 GMT
My Mum's a Tw*t is playing twice-nightly, so its two-week run has the same audience capacity as a usual four-week run.
LIFT are going to continue to tour Minefield, to venues to be announced.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jul 9, 2017 19:56:49 GMT
The only shows they have see are WWRY,which is gone,and Mamma Mia, again, I'm not sitting thru that again! Thanks in advance,what do you guys think? So they've chosen only to see musicals with songs that they already know. They haven't specifically asked you to pick something completely new to them which you think they might like, which they probably would have asked if they'd genuinely wanted you to broaden their horizons. So, they probably only suggested the matinee so as to be polite to you, and they probably won't appreciate any show with songs that they don't already know really well, and like! This limits your options ... I'd avoid the "classics" such as Phantom and Lion King - they cannot stand musicals! But Kinky Boots might work, if you know the story would appeal to their sense of humour.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jul 9, 2017 15:41:21 GMT
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jul 9, 2017 12:53:09 GMT
In some USA states, I understand that the teachers are enforced to teach Creationism!
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jul 9, 2017 10:36:04 GMT
When did this thread mutate from "Actors Who Don't Do Stage Work" to "Actors Who Do Do Stage Work"?
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jul 8, 2017 11:37:32 GMT
The Wig Out reading was spectacular. 2 hours 10 with an interval, and semi-staged with costumes, costume changes, songs, dance routines (including Jonjo chair-dancing in sparkly platforms!). Extraordinary that they managed to do all that in one day of rehearsal and in no way a "reading." Some of the actors were even off-book! Ha! Having seen the Royal Court Theatre production, I couldn't imagine how Wig Out could possibly work as an unstaged reading.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jul 8, 2017 11:34:03 GMT
Watching this afternoon and haven't seen this mentioned anywhere on the boards! Anybody been? Looking forward to it! This show starred Bernadette Peters in its original Broadway run in 1969...and was one of the shortest ever Broadway runs...ONE PERFORMANCE (and 14 in previews!) No, this is a completely new stage version of La Strada. Nothing whatsoever to do with an old Broadway musical!
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jul 8, 2017 10:54:26 GMT
The First Lady is the wife of the President of the USA. She may or may not have any ability in her own right.
The First Lady of British Musical Theatre is Sarah Hugill Sarah Brightman Madeleine Gurdon.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jul 8, 2017 10:32:25 GMT
David Troughton is already playing Lear (Tony Archer) with his Fool (Pat) on the verge of dividing their realm (Bridge Farm) between surviving children (Helen and Tom) and favoured grandchild (Johnny).
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jul 7, 2017 15:45:15 GMT
Aaaggggghhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jul 6, 2017 15:45:51 GMT
Mansplain Warning
The front page is News
The review inside is Arts
Different editors, different agendas.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jul 6, 2017 13:15:32 GMT
It struck me as an echo of the Arab Spring, with the West End rising from the tyranny of tat to produce popular, less exploitative theatre.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jul 3, 2017 17:20:35 GMT
It is a surprisingly choice of role, though, given that someone of Abraham's reputation could probably come over here and have his pick of Shakespeare, Chekhov, Ibsen or American roles at a major theatre? Major theatres don't pay West End rates. The big stars are usually seen in small-cast plays in the West End. Most people will go to see F Murray Abraham, not to see the play.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jul 3, 2017 17:08:58 GMT
If you are fascinated by on-stage ironing, then The Red Lion is for you.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jul 3, 2017 14:28:24 GMT
F Murray Abraham probably wouldn't sign up to a minimum-wage run at the Park. The production has already been created and tested in Bath, so the two options for now are a star-rate run in the West End or nothing.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 30, 2017 11:59:13 GMT
the traditional Orange Tree fare - as it was, anyway Remember that Martin Crimp was an Orange Tree regular playwright for decades.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 30, 2017 11:05:58 GMT
Jerusalem had a huge impact on me because it's about Englishness and storytelling. But The Ferryman, set in Ireland, may leave me more cold, however good it is, because its setting is alien to me. We will see.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 30, 2017 10:54:40 GMT
The ideal solution is to quell demand by programming unpopular shows.
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